Appendices – Round Table Summaries
Ensuring Safety and Quality of Bivalves
Chair: Dorothy Leonard, Ocean Equities LLC, United States
The topics included depuration and improvements in current post-harvest treatments
such as high pressure processing. These approaches have the potential to reduce the
risk posed by pathogens while maintaining product quality and safety. The session
opened with presentations from experts of France, Italy, Uruguay, Canada and the
United States.
Dinorah Medina, Uruguay DINARA Molluscan Shellfish Safety in South America:
Dr. Medina gave an overview of the importance of product safety to the Latin
American countries which export their products to the European Union. Since 1980
Argentina has carried out monitoring of biotoxins in shellfish and in 2006 started
the sanitary classifications of harvest areas. Since 1994 Brazil is conducting studies
of phytoplankton mostly on the south coast. Chile has implemented the NSSP
since 1989 and currently exports frozen mollusks to the EU. Uruguay has been
implementing a coastal monitoring program since 1980 for domestic markets and a
control program for the export of wild clams, frozen or live.
Cyr Couturier, Marine Institute, Memorial University, Newfoundland-Farmed
Molluscan Shellfish Safety and Aquaculture Supply Chain in Canada. The Canadian
aquaculture industry (150,000 tons valued at $2 billion) implements BMPs in
farm-based HACCP programs with full traceability and in some cases, third party
certification. Standards are science-based and validated regularly; no illnesses
related to farmed seafood.
Patrick Lassus, IFREMER, France Storage and Detoxification of Bivalve Mollusks
as a Tool in Marketing Strategy. He covered a study that was conducted to determine
the best approach in post harvest treatment to allow harvest and marketing of oysters
and mussels during toxic blooms of Dinophysis acuminata (DSP) and Alexandrium
minutum (PSP producer). The Lassus paper can be found within this document.
G. Sauv´ e (ed.), Molluscan Shellfish Safety, DOI 10.1007/978-94-007-6588-7,
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Ensuring Safety and Quality of Bivalves
Chair: Dorothy Leonard, Ocean Equities LLC, United States
The topics included depuration and improvements in current post-harvest treatments
such as high pressure processing. These approaches have the potential to reduce the
risk posed by pathogens while maintaining product quality and safety. The session
opened with presentations from experts of France, Italy, Uruguay, Canada and the
United States.
Dinorah Medina, Uruguay DINARA Molluscan Shellfish Safety in South America:
Dr. Medina gave an overview of the importance of product safety to the Latin
American countries which export their products to the European Union. Since 1980
Argentina has carried out monitoring of biotoxins in shellfish and in 2006 started
the sanitary classifications of harvest areas. Since 1994 Brazil is conducting studies
of phytoplankton mostly on the south coast. Chile has implemented the NSSP
since 1989 and currently exports frozen mollusks to the EU. Uruguay has been
implementing a coastal monitoring program since 1980 for domestic markets and a
control program for the export of wild clams, frozen or live.
Cyr Couturier, Marine Institute, Memorial University, Newfoundland-Farmed
Molluscan Shellfish Safety and Aquaculture Supply Chain in Canada. The Canadian
aquaculture industry (150,000 tons valued at $2 billion) implements BMPs in
farm-based HACCP programs with full traceability and in some cases, third party
certification. Standards are science-based and validated regularly; no illnesses
related to farmed seafood.
Patrick Lassus, IFREMER, France Storage and Detoxification of Bivalve Mollusks
as a Tool in Marketing Strategy. He covered a study that was conducted to determine
the best approach in post harvest treatment to allow harvest and marketing of oysters
and mussels during toxic blooms of Dinophysis acuminata (DSP) and Alexandrium
minutum (PSP producer). The Lassus paper can be found within this document.
G. Sauv´ e (ed.), Molluscan Shellfish Safety, DOI 10.1007/978-94-007-6588-7,
© Springer ScienceCBusiness Media Dordrecht 201
249
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